Fri, 18 Jul 2003

Deep-Linking Legal After German Supreme Court Ruling

JN - Washington.   Efficiency and usability of the internet celebrate a remarkable victory over copyright and unfair competition claims before the German Federal Supreme Court ("Bundesgerichtshof"). In its ruling of July 17, 2003 (Case No. I ZR 259/00, not yet published), the court held that webpages containing publically accessible news articles may be linked directly (so-called "deep linking" or "web-clipping") while bypassing the entry pages of content providers.
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